Cooks, Restaurant Salary in Birmingham, AL

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in Birmingham

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $28,500 a year or less, while the top 10% make $38,590 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in Birmingham earn between $30,210 and $36,620.

*Hourly figures assume 2,080 paid hours a year.

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in Birmingham

On the average salary of $34,010, a single filer in Birmingham takes home about $28,145 a year, or $2,345 a month and $1,083 every two weeks. Taxes take 17% of gross pay.

Single filer, standard deduction: federal income tax (2026 brackets), Social Security, Medicare and state income tax (2026 rules). City occupational taxes (for example in Birmingham and Gadsden) are not included.

Is Birmingham a good place for cooks, restaurant? Pay vs. cost of living

Prices in the Birmingham area are 8% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 91.6), so the average $34,010 buys what about $37,111 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.7 times the median wage of all jobs in Birmingham ($47,770). A typical home costs $262,556, or 7.7 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other Alabama cities

Birmingham ranks 2nd of 12 Alabama metro areas for this job; Huntsville pays the most ($34,970).

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Highest-paying cities for cooks, restaurant

Kahului, HI pays this job the most of the metro areas we cover ($54,460).

Cooks, Restaurant salary by city

Related jobs in Birmingham

• Food Preparation Workers$30,230 a year
• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$28,980 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$28,550 a year
• Cooks, Short Order$25,950 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$68,260 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$42,730 a year
• Bartenders$35,420 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$30,770 a year

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